Such are some of the phantoms which pursue or elude us as we pass to and fro through the circle of Winchester and its surroundings--yet are they actual phantoms? Have not these seemingly impalpable nothings as complete an identity as the memories and records of the actual happenings of the past? The writer well recollects, after hunting through Salisbury and exploring its treasures of architecture and interest, the delight with which he came upon the old Cathedral organ, now for some years past removed from the Cathedral to one of the city churches, and recognized in it a real bond of relationship--not because it was originally the gift of George III., though that indeed was the case, but because it was the organ on which Dickens’s Tom Pinch had played when the Cathedral service was over, and his friend the organist’s assistant had permitted him to touch the keys. Not a great circumstance, nor a great character--far from it,--but sufficient to supply the one touch of human sympathy by which soul recognizes soul, and which binds all--past and present, student and subject, reader and author--alike in one. And even as these phantoms, whether of history or legend, of actual existence or fancy, have been conjured up before us for some brief spell, let us, now our task has drawn to a close, bid them adieu with what kindliness of recollection we may: Come like shadows, so depart. Index _The titles in black type refer to illustrations._ Adam of Gurdon, 123 Ælfeah, 58 Æthelbert, 32 Æthelred the Redeless, 61, 85 Æthelwold, Bishop, 20, 30, 49, 54, 58, 78, 85, 147, 153, 154 Æthelwulf, 30, 32, 85, 153 Alfred, King, 5, 32, 34, 91, 143, 152, 153 Alfred, a refugee, 38 Alfred, statue of, 42 Alresford, 111, 184 Alswitha, 41, 91, 145 Alton, Pass of, 123 Alwarenestret, 94 Alwine, 71 Anderida, 15 Anselm, Archbishop, 87, 96 Antonine, Itineraries, 15 Arthur, King, 15, 168, 183 Arthur, Prince, 151, 173 Arthur, Round Table, 21, 168, 174, 184 Asser, Bishop, 36, 40 Assize, Bloody, 7, 175 Athelstan, King, 43 Augustine, 21 Aulus Plautius, 15 Austen, Jane, 7, 154, 171, 185 Avington Park, 22 Barons’ war, 113 Beaufort, Cardinal, 147, 151, 171 Bede (Venerable), 22 Benedictines, 131 Birinus, 23, 24, 153, 154 Bishop’s Waltham, 162, 169 Black Death, 139, 160 Bredenestret, 94 Broadway, 177 Browne, Harold, Bishop, 154 Bucchestret, 93, 94 Burton, Dr., 163 Buttercross, 80, 118, 177 Cædmon, 36 Cær Gwent, 14 Calais, 121 Calpestret, 94 Camden, 143 Castle, Norman, at Winchester, 86, 94, 172 Castle, Brabantine merchants in Winchester, 115 Cathedral, 8, 29 Cathedral of Æthelwold, 56, 77 Cathedral, bedesmen, 4 Cathedral, pilgrims at, 128 Cathedral, preservation of, 77, 155 Cathedral, transformation by Wykeham, 149 Cathedral (Winchester), 23, 146 Celts, 12 Charlemagne, 27 Charles II., 6, 178 Charles V. (Emperor), 6, 174 Chenictes, 96 Chenichetehalla, 96, 177 Chepemanesela, 96, 177 Cheyney Court, 155